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  • MGA 10: Brave-browser as an alternative?

    From Markus Robert Kessler@no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de to alt.os.linux.mageia on Sun Aug 2 07:06:09 2026
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    Hi everyone,

    in MGA10's repo the only useful webbrowser seems to be Firefox.

    I can understand that MGA's resources are limited, and updating Chromium
    all time exceeds these limits.

    On the other hand, I see in my own webserver logs that Firefox nowadays
    plays almost no role any more. Most Linux machines are running Chrome or Chromium, while Mac OS users seem to prefer Safari, but this is another
    thing.

    Now I saw that Brave webbrowser is based on Chromium web engine, too -
    like Chrome and Edge - and is open source. This project is maintained by
    the Brave developers crew, hence, (in my understanding) there is much less effort to expect when it comes to updating this package.

    This reminds me of 'yt-dlp'-package, where an abandoned similar project
    was replaced with this, which is kept up-to-date by the developers
    themselves, and MGA only gets the new sources as is and makes an MGA rpm
    out of it.

    Can this be done with Brave webbrowser also?

    Best regards,

    Markus
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  • From Mike Easter@MikeE@ster.invalid to alt.os.linux.mageia on Sun Aug 2 08:45:49 2026
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    Markus Robert Kessler wrote:
    Can this be done with Brave webbrowser also?

    You could check out the flatpak.
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    Mike Easter
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  • From faeychild@faeychild@nomail.afraid.org to alt.os.linux.mageia on Mon Aug 3 08:41:30 2026
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    On 2/8/26 17:06, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:
    Hi everyone,

    in MGA10's repo the only useful webbrowser seems to be Firefox.

    I haven't installed "10" yet. I'm holding out
    I also hope it still includes Konqueror because that works with Aldi's recharge page
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    faeychild
    Running kde on 6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64
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  • From Markus Robert Kessler@no_reply@dipl-ing-kessler.de to alt.os.linux.mageia on Mon Aug 3 04:31:12 2026
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    On Sun, 2 Aug 2026 08:45:49 -0700 Mike Easter wrote:

    Markus Robert Kessler wrote:
    Can this be done with Brave webbrowser also?

    You could check out the flatpak.

    Hi,

    Brave of Chromium as flatpak would probably work, but then you have to
    look here and there all time, if there are updates needed to install.

    At least one browser based on chromium engine should be included in the official repo. Then, any necessary update will be triggered automatically.

    My assumption now is, that Brave is the one browser with chromium engine,
    that can be included into MGA (10) repo with the lowest effort.

    Best regards,

    Markus
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  • From Daniel70@daniel47@nomail.afraid.org to alt.os.linux.mageia on Mon Aug 3 18:39:51 2026
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    On 3/08/2026 8:41 am, faeychild wrote:
    On 2/8/26 17:06, Markus Robert Kessler wrote:
    Hi everyone,

    in MGA10's repo the only useful webbrowser seems to be Firefox.

    I haven't installed "10" yet.-a I'm holding out
    I also hope it still includes-a Konqueror because that works with Aldi's recharge page

    Gee!! I so want to check this out with my SeaMonkey .... but I topped up
    my Aldimobile just yesterday so see no reason to re-do it today.

    Or did I actually have to use my FF to top-up??
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    Daniel70
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  • From faeychild@faeychild@nomail.afraid.org to alt.os.linux.mageia on Thu Aug 6 08:16:57 2026
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    On 3/8/26 18:39, Daniel70 wrote:

    Gee!! I so want to check this out with my SeaMonkey .... but I topped up
    my Aldimobile just yesterday so see no reason to re-do it today.

    Or did I actually have to use my FF to top-up??


    FF just hangs and hangs and hangs
    never returns from the recharge now button
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    faeychild
    Running kde on 6.6.141-desktop-1.mga9 kernel.
    Mageia release 9 (Official) for x86_64
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  • From Daniel70@daniel47@nomail.afraid.org to alt.os.linux.mageia on Thu Aug 6 20:48:44 2026
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    On 6/08/2026 8:16 am, faeychild wrote:
    On 3/8/26 18:39, Daniel70 wrote:

    Gee!! I so want to check this out with my SeaMonkey .... but I topped
    up my Aldimobile just yesterday so see no reason to re-do it today.

    Or did I actually have to use my FF to top-up??

    FF just hangs and hangs and hangs
    never returns from the recharge now button

    WFM By using my FF, Faeychild. ;-)
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    Daniel70
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